Hello! I finally got the board to actually slide, and now what I thought would be the easy part (dropping back in), is turning out to be the hard part. From watching the video, I don't seem to be getting the board all the way around on re-entry. Any advice for foot placement or anything like that? Thanks in advance!

Looking good - though a lip slide is something different (frontside 180 to boardslide disaster).Try doing it the other way: you're focussing on the slide and not making the re-entry. Try mastering the re-entry first and then adding the slide - which is to say, do a regular rock & roll first. Then go up at an angle and do a rock & roll. Then push it a little harder and try to get the board to slide an inch or so before you go back in.

And as Pete says, turn your shoulders more.

That's how I learned them. There's a slow-motion board slide in this video:

abuck wrote:Hello! I finally got the board to actually slide, and now what I thought would be the easy part (dropping back in), is turning out to be the hard part. From watching the video, I don't seem to be getting the board all the way around on re-entry. Any advice for foot placement or anything like that? Thanks in advance!

In the old days we would have called that a rock n roll boardslide just to confuse matters, I have noticed a lot of tricks have been renamed in more recent times, no idea why

That's what I get for trying to sound like I'm up to date on things. Honestly, inclination is to call it a "rail slide" because I'm sliding on the rails of the board, but rock'n'roll boardslide it is. This morning I practiced regular backside rock'n'rolls and could feel where my shoulders have to be. still couldn't nail a RnR BS, though. Warwick, I will try your progression (angle, inch, slide) and hopefully post some progression. Thanks, dudes!

The big secret: railsThey make this trick better, faster and much more stable. See Jeff Grosso sliding round the entire circumference of a pool using railsI only really learnt to do this when I went back to using rails on my board after about 20 years without themI got Pig rails because they're the ones Grosso uses. One modification: I use double-sided tape as well as screws to fix them on.

I can not do a board slide to fakie, which is weird because I have rock fakies wired. It just feels a little out of control coming in from the board slide. The good news is I am using rails and I agree they totally help with the slide.

Boardslide to fakie is hard. To slide, you have to be going at the coping at an angle, which is great to continue into a rock n roll. But to get it back into a fakie you have to somehow get your body weight back straight again

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